Paper roll holder



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PAPER ROLL HOLDER Filed Nov. 8, 193

Y Patented Dec. 24, 1935 PATENT OFFICE PAPER ROLL HOLDER Lester Morton White, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Application November 8, 1934, Serial No. 752,151

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in paper roll holders and paper rolls therefor, which are particularly adapted for use on holders in which the matrix and paper roll are neither oscillating or rotative.

The object of the invention is to provide means for securing the roll on the matrix in such a manner that it cannot be removed except by tearing it off strip by strip,

The invention consists of a wall member having a matrix supported therefrom and a plunger extending from the wall member to engage the matrix intermediate its length and to secure a roll of paper fitted upon said matrix against removal, as will be more fully described in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawing, in which:-

Fig. l is a vertical sectional view of the paper roll holder.

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the paper roll.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

The numeral 5 indicates a wall member having a front panel 2 provided with a horizontal slot 3 through which a jet of air is adapted to be forced by a manually operated flap 3A when it is desired to take a strip of paper from the roll 4.

Extending from one side of the wall member I is a support 5 carrying a matrix 6 for the paper roll. The matrix is a hollow body having front and rear walls respectively numbered 1 and 8, V

the front wall I is provided with a finger opening 9 which is obviously covered by the paper roll when the device is in use. Fitted to the front wall is a spring latch It having an upturned free end H which is adapted to reach into approximate contact with the rear wall 8 of the matrix 6.

A tubular socket I2 is secured to the wall memher I and extends inwardly from the front panel 2. Slidably fitted into the socket I2 is a plunger 13 which is urged outwardly by a spring M. The plunger I3 is provided with a conical point l5 at its free end and is grooved immediately to the rear of said point as at I6, it is also provided to the rear of the groove with a shoulder [1 which is adapted to abut the outside of the rear wall 8, while the point [5 and groove [6 are adapted to enter the matrix 6 through an aperture l8, so that the upturned end ll of the latch l may engage the groove i ii to prevent the plunger from being withdrawn from its extended or normal position.

The paper roll 4 is fitted in the usual manner on a cardboard tube i9 and is perforated or other 10 wise weakened transversely of the paper strip as at 20. An aperture 2| is formed through the roll and its tube 59 along the line of weakness 20 which is capable of admitting the plunger.

In use, the plunger I3 is thrust back into its socket [2 to permit a roll 4 to be placed on the matrix 6, when the plunger is released it is forced by the spring it through the aperture 2| in the roll and into the aperture 18 in the matrix, when fully extended it becomes engaged by the free 20 end II of the latch it which enters the groove Hi to prevent said plunger from being retracted and the roll being removed from the matrix. When the roll has been used up by successively tearing off strips of paper therefrom, its cardboard tube I9 is torn off and by inserting the finger through the aperture 9 the latch I0 can be depressed so that the plunger l3 may again be thrust back into its socket to fit another roll to the matrix.

What I claim as my invention is:

In a paper roll holder adapted to dispense strips from a paper roll carried thereby, a wall memher, a matrix supported therefrom, a plunger extensible from the wall member to the matrix, said matrix having an aperture in alignment with the plunger, said plunger being adapted when extended to enter the aperture of the matrix and a latch within the matrix adapted to lock the plunger in extended position, said matrix having an opening normally covered by the paper roll affording access to the latch.

LESTER MORTON WHITE. 

